Note one whose imployment for the Pageant was vtterly spent, he being knowne to be Eldertons immediate heyre — KEMPS NINE DAIES WONDER, PERFORMED IN A MORRICE FROM LONDON TO NORWICH.

P. 21, l. 7, one whose imployment for the Pageant was vtterly spent, he being knowne to be Eldertons immediate heyre.]—An allusion to Anthony Munday. During a long life he figured in various capacities,—as a player, an apprentice to Allde the printer, a retainer of the Earl of Oxford, a Messenger of her Majesty’s Chamber, Poet to the City, dramatist, writer in verse and prose, and draper. He also excited considerable attention, and drew much trouble on himself, by his efforts in detecting the treasonable practices of the Jesuits. According to the inscription on his monument in the church of St. Stephen, Coleman Street, he died in his 80th year, August 10th 1633. (Stow’s Survey, B. iii. 61. ed. 1720.) For a fuller account of Munday and his writings, see Chalmers’s Biog. Dict., Collier’s Supplementary volume to Dodsley’s Old Plays, Warton’s Hist. of Engl. Poet., iii., 290, seq. ed. 4to., Ritson’s Bibl. Poet., and Lowndes’s Bibl. Man. His Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington, and Death of Robert, &c. (in the latter of which, if not in the former, he was assisted by Chettle) are reprinted by Mr. Collier in the volume just mentioned; his English Romayne Life; Discovering the Lives of the Englishmen at Rome, the orders of the English Seminarie, &c. and his Banquet of daintie Conceits, &c. may be found in The Harl. Miscell. VII. 136, IX. 219, ed. Park; his Triumphes of Reunited Britania, Metropolis Coronata, and Crysanaleia, the Golden Fishing, are included in Nichols’s Prog. of K. James, i. 564, iii. 107, 195; and extracts from his translations of various romances are given in Sir E. Brydges’s Brit. Bibl. i. 225, 135, ii. 561.